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CommonWealth Magazine - Summer 2004

CFO Insights and Challenges
Five Isenberg School Graduates Excel as Chief Financial Officers

The five Isenberg School alumni profiled in this feature have all followed accounting or finance career paths to become leaders and architects of financial strategy at their companies. They provide leadership that brings strategic focus and alignment to their firms’ internal financial systems. But that’s only half the story. They also serve as their CEOs’ financial strategic partners in conveying their companies’ stories to investors and the public. When stakeholders call for numbers behind an enticing company tale, it is often the CFO who must deliver on the details. In reading these profiles, you’ll discover that each CFO has a unique managerial style just as their companies have their own distinct cultures. But they do share a common denominator with each other and with you—their business education and career all got off to a promising start at the Isenberg School of Management.


Thomas F.
Ackerman '76

Deirdre (O'Driscoll)
Aubuchon '85 MBA
Paul Milbury
'74 '75 MBA


Anne Kerzner
Randall '90
Neil Waisnor '77